"MY name to such a thing! When was I found to oppress a poor man for love of a rich?
To follow wiggeries and forms with solemn attention, careless what became of the internal fact?
Act of 1566, allowing Gersdorf to make his Pond?
Like enough;--and Arnold's loss of water, that is not worth the ascertaining; you know not yet what it was, some of you even say it was nothing; care not whether it was anything.

Could Arnold grind, or not, as formerly?
What is Act of 1566, or any or all Acts, in comparison?
Wretched mortals, had you wigs a fathom long, and Law-books on your back, and Acts of 1566 by the hundredweight, what could it help, if the right of a poor man were left by you trampled under foot?
What is the meaning of your sitting there as Judges?
Dispensers of Right in God's Name and mine?
I will make an example of you which shall be remembered!--Out of my sight!" Whereupon EXEUNT in haste, all Three,--though not far, not home, as will be seen.
Only the essential sense of all this, not the exact terms, could (or should) any Stellter take in short-hand; and in the Protocol it is decorously omitted altogether.

Rannsleben merely says: "The King farther made use of very strong expressions against us,"-- too strong to be repeated,--"and, at last, dismissed us without saying what he intended to do with us.

We had hardly left the room, when he followed us, ordering us to wait.

The King, during the interview with us, held the Sentence, of my composition, in his hand; and seemed particularly irritated about the circumstance of the judgment being pronounced in his name, as is the usual form.